Katharine (Kathy) H.S. Moon, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita at Wellesley College, where she taught for thirty years in the Department of Political Science and as the Wasserman Chair in Asian Studies. She is a graduate of Smith College and Princeton University. Moon is the author of Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations (Columbia University); Protesting America: Democracy and the U.S.-Korea Alliance (University of California); and numerous academic and policy-relevant articles on a variety of subjects related to U.S.-Korea relations and East Asian politics, covering democratization, nationalism, social movements, migration, and women and politics.
Moon was the inaugural holder of the Korea Studies Chair at The Brookings Institution (2014-16) and has appeared widely in U.S. and international media on diverse topics related to the Koreas. Her current project, based on in-depth interviews with members of the North Korean diaspora in different countries, addresses the personal as political. She is also working on a novel.
Kathy Moon is a board member of the National Committee on North Korea.